I see a lot of debate over how to tether. Can anyone please tell me the tried and true method to tether on LTE without being detected/billed by AT&T?
Thanks in advance.
I am not a pro whatsoever here, but it is my understanding that once you are rooted, if you freeze or uninstall tethermanager using Titanium Backup you should not have to do anything else, and it should work.
You can insinstall or freeze tethering manager, but no matter what you do they can still detect you if they look for it. I have never ran the stock rom on my infuse, and always had tethering manager uninstalled, and they still sent me the text message warning to stop or upgrade to a tethering compatible data plan.
I think they figured out that people were deleting tethering manager, so they now check by different means, from my understanding they check the packets of data being sent and received or something to that effect. A phone will send and receive different packets than a tethered laptop.
It will work for a while, but they may eventually warn you that you've been caught. I would say go ahead and do it until they warn you. That's what I did. And I suggest not using it for huge amounts of data, like a replacement for your home internet. I think I was caught because I used my phone to tether a few laptops and a ps3 to watch Netflix for a couple of days when my internet went down at home and my roomies still wanted to use internet.
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welchertc said:
I think they figured out that people were deleting tethering manager, so they now check by different means, from my understanding they check the packets of data being sent and received or something to that effect. A phone will send and receive different packets than a tethered laptop.
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So if you only tether your android tablet you are good and they can't tell, correct????
Change your APN don't use their Proxy and you will be fine, I have a phone at home tethering 24/7 to my computer to browse / chat / download roms kernels and it stays tethered not doing nothing 90% of the time I never get messages saying I'm tethering
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maxjivi05 said:
Change your APN don't use their Proxy and you will be fine, I have a phone at home tethering 24/7 to my computer to browse / chat / download roms kernels and it stays tethered not doing nothing 90% of the time I never get messages saying I'm tethering
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How do you change the proxy?
Menu - Wireless Networks - Mobile Networks - APN then make a new APN under name put anything under APN put Phone under type put internet hit menu then save and your done
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The bottom line is that AT&T can detect it. They just didn't bother enforcing it until the last 6 months. And they have ramped up the enforcement more and more to force people into the tethering plan involuntarily. I speak from first-hand experience!
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tbran said:
The bottom line is that AT&T can detect it. They just didn't bother enforcing it until the last 6 months. And they have ramped up the enforcement more and more to force people into the tethering plan involuntarily. I speak from first-hand experience!
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This. Changing apns and such only makes it harder for ATT to detect. If they think you are, they can still check, and will find out.
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For AT&T to know you are throttling they have to go through Billions of packets every second now with that they do sniff packets through their proxy and changing the APN helps avoid those problems and turning off tethering manager.
You can always encrypt your packets if you are that worried about it but from personal experience you should be fine.
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Does changing my APN affect anything else? Should i only switch to the APN when I plan on tethering or should i use it all the time?
I'm just asking because the default APN has a bunch of info. What does all of that stuff do?
I got my ATT Note today. Rooted it, installed Titanium Backup (aready owned it), froze tether manager and Hot Spot works perfect.
SeanH said:
I got my ATT Note today. Rooted it, installed Titanium Backup (aready owned it), froze tether manager and Hot Spot works perfect.
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Can you give us a little bit more information what files did you used to rooted it to include procedure to froze the tether manager.
Go to Dev forum and get the root kernel. Follow directions in that thread. Get titanium backup and superuser and uninstall tethering manager.
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Does changing my APN affect anything else? Should i only switch to the APN when I plan on tethering or should i use it all the time?
I'm just asking because the default APN has a bunch of info. What does all of that stuff do?
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The Phone APN mentioned before is for HSPA+. To use LTE, you need ptr APN that is pre-configured on your phone.
So, by switch to Phone APN, you are disabling LTE and switched back to HSPA+. AT&T is still able to catch you (just ask those SGS2 owners who got letters/SMS).
Tethering is so 2010. With a GNote, why tether?
Btw, I pay for tethering but rarely use...only use for critical VPN required access. Actually work pays for the tethering.
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To freeze or uninstall can I use titanium backup or do I have to use tr PRO version?
Willthrill said:
To freeze or uninstall can I use titanium backup or do I have to use tr PRO version?
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You don't have to, but you'll likely buy pro at some point. It is more than worth it to backup and restore applications in batch. Plus you help out the developer of an amazing program!
So regular titanium will freeze or remove apps?
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So regular titanium will freeze or remove apps?
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The free version can be used to "uninstall" and backup apps; however, you will need the PRO (paid) version to "freeze" apps.
TiBu PRO is one of the most justifiable app purchases you will ever make.
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I was thinking about using the app wifi tether and was wondering about ATT detecting it. I am on unlimited data and don't want to get the boot...if I used it once in a great while.
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I have been using the stock tethering by rooting and deleting some tethering apk (look for it somewhere in the forums). But I have not had any issues or messages about tethering. They will give you a warning if you are detected though and that'll give you time to stop tethering. In other words they're not gonna just take you off unlimited instantly.
If you're still on gingerbread root the phone and download titanium backup and delete tethering manager then boom. Don't have to pay for tethering services
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Ok, so back on topic here.
They can and they can't.
If you just browse the net and do normal things like that, no, they can't.
But, you start sucking up bandwidth playing MMO's and downloading torrents, then yeah, they will get you eventually.
The amount of Bandwidth you use will get you before they seek you out for tethering is what I am trying to say. Just be reasonable and responsible is all.
On my cappy I was running saurom and tethered alot of the day to my laptop. Never got anything from ATT. Now I have the Note and its stock. Installed FoxFi and within a few days of just normal browsing I got a text from ATT so I had to call them and stop tethering, don't want to lose my unlimited data plan.
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I have unlimited data and used to tether my laptop to my Infuse when my internet was down at my college house. My roommates also would tether to it and use their laptops and our internet connected bluray player to watch netflix. I never had any problems, until I installed a ROM that didn't have the tetheringmanager.apk removed, because the developer thought free tethering was wrong...ugh. I didn't bother to check for it being uninstalled, as most custom ROMs have it removed, and I got a text from AT&T about an hour later.
I was really pissed when I went and read that the dev didn't remove it, because it caused me to lose my tethering ability since I want to keep my unlimited data, but it was also my fault for not checking. Long story short, make sure the apk is reoved, and you should be good to go. They may still catch you if you use enormous amounts of data as others have said, but they will warn you before changing your unlimited plan to a tiered tethering one.
My suggestion, do it while you can, and just stop if you get warned! =]
Ok pretty much what I was expecting. I have a few questions but first I want to clarify that I'm on Saurom VII, does anyone know if this ROM had the APK removed and what's the name of it so I can remove with titanium if need be? Thanks in advance.
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Edit: I found two apps named wifi share 1.0 and wifi sharing manager 1.0...bingo?
No bingo, though I don't think it would hurt to remove those either, as those could also tip off att, not sure though. The one you need to make sure of is tetheringmanager.apk. Go into root explorer: system > app > and delete tetheringmanager.apk
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I couldst find anything name tethering manager, but I found like 3 other apps that the wifi icon but not sure what they do lol. Here a screen shot..., well apparently I can't upload a screen shot because the JPEG had an invalid file extension (using the XDA app)
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Disabling TetheringManager
This thread is very helpful. Thanks!
Posters have suggested that you delete the TetheringManager apk. Could you just freeze it (in Titanium Backup) instead?
backup then remove
You can freeze it if you have the Premium Titanium Backup. If you don't you can back it up then uninstall it. That way you can restore it if need.
Yes. Freezing works.
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I'm really curious as to how exactly AT&T figures out who tethers. In the past, I tethered all the time whenever I needed to use my laptop in the field. Never a problem, and I never abused it. Then I got my international SGSII (GT-I9100). I was trying to download a wi-fi driver to my home PC so I could connect with my Cox Cable internet home network. I probably had tethering on for maybe 5 minutes, and I know I had to have consumed <5megs of data. A couple hours later I got the email and text from AT&T telling me they were moving me off the unlimited plan to the limited plan.
How'd they know? The phone isn't available on AT&T, and didn't have any of AT&T's tething apk's like tetheringmanager.apk. I've tried Googling to see if anybody knows exactly how they know, but nobody seems to know.
ClockworkMod Tether is supposed to be invisible to the phone company. I'm just afraid to test it now! Tether link: http://goo.gl/7Ay6w
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How'd they know? The phone isn't available on AT&T, and didn't have any of AT&T's tething apk's like tetheringmanager.apk. I've tried Googling to see if anybody knows exactly how they know, but nobody seems to know.
ClockworkMod Tether is supposed to be invisible to the phone company. I'm just afraid to test it now! Tether link: http://goo.gl/7Ay6w
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There's been a lot of discussion about how AT&T detects tethering. From everything I've read, I believe that they look at the TTL parameter in the packets to see if there's an extra hop. When you tether, packets originate on the tethered device and the TTL gets changed. Apparently, some of the USB tether apps like ClockworkMod Tether don't change the TTL, so they avoid detection.
I haven't tested this myself, so I don't know for sure that ClockworkMod Tether is safe to use. Maybe other people have used it and can report here.
kevinallen4325 said:
If you're still on gingerbread root the phone and download titanium backup and delete tethering manager then boom. Don't have to pay for tethering services
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Isn't the Tethering Manager app needed for 3rd party Tethering to work? When I start FoxFi, Tethering Manager also got started immediately. I am on stock rooted.
I got the text from AT&T saying that I had to stop tethering so I called and tried to lie about but they said they were tipped off because I accessed the apple store multiple time and since I was on WM at the time it would be impossible for me to do that on my device. They were correct I was tethering to an ipod touch and they somehow knew. The women told me sometimes they get tips from their security system that tells them different things about the likelyhood of what customers are tethering and when their system gathers enough information to prove someone is tethering it automatically sends a text to that customer. I felt stupid for tryin to lie after she told me their records show I never switched my sim to an iphone and was still able to access the apple store several times. I never got caught tethering until I tethered the ipod.
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I got the text from AT&T saying that I had to stop tethering so I called and tried to lie about but they said they were tipped off because I accessed the apple store multiple time and since I was on WM at the time it would be impossible for me to do that on my device. They were correct I was tethering to an ipod touch and they somehow knew. The women told me sometimes they get tips from their security system that tells them different things about the likelyhood of what customers are tethering and when their system gathers enough information to prove someone is tethering it automatically sends a text to that customer. I felt stupid for tryin to lie after she told me their records show I never switched my sim to an iphone and was still able to access the apple store several times. I never got caught tethering until I tethered the ipod.
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Same thing here, never got busted until I tethered my iPad from my iPhone. So far so good with the note...
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Well i have recently tried using my samsung galaxy s3 hotspot and run into a problem.
i have t mobile i have 4g internet it is 2gb a month i have plenty left.
but when i goto use the hotspot my computer find its no problem but when i go and connect it gives me some bs about limited internet service and then relogs into my prevous network or just keeps me offline.
can anyone give me some tips on what the problem might be? thank you.
bump.
If your not rooted try,
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.foxfi
If your rooted try
http://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/
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short answer. wifi tethering doesn't come on the 2gb plan. only 5gb or higher. so yeah. you'll have to find a way around that I guess.
tony yayo said:
short answer. wifi tethering doesn't come on the 2gb plan. only 5gb or higher. so yeah. you'll have to find a way around that I guess.
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Hes probably trying to find a way to tether without tmobile knowing.. Hes asking for "a way around that".
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1766155&page=5
Check out my reply to another post in the General forum. Use one of the Tethering Widgets to get you past the subscription alert messages. It has successfully worked for many people on different carriers. I used "Fattin's" Wifi Tether widget.
Is that a custom ROM with tethering enabled? The limited or no connectivity, yellow triangle, comes when you have successfully connected to the network, but don't have internet access... then in your case your computer decides to go back to a remembered network...
Make sure Wifi is off before you enable tethering, and sometimes you will have to connect and reconnect and few times, even give it a minute before the yellow triangle disappears... This is all contingent on your rom having tethering enabled, and you're trying to use the stock android tethering...
To keep it from autoconnecting to the different network, you'll have to remove that from the preferred networks list temporarily...
Hi everyone. I just got a Milestone 3 (Droid 3) from Alltel (the Alltel that was divested from the Verizon buyout), who is actually Atlantic Telecom Network. They are a great local carrier who has the best coverage in my area.
I rooted the phone, installed various wireless tether apps but whenever I use any of them, I instantly lose my 3G data connection along with a message that says "3G data link lost". Sometimes is comes back right after turning the hotspot off and other times I have to reboot. I am sure this is caused by a carrier setting because they want you to pay $20 more/month to enable tethering. Does anyone know anyway around this issue? It never happened with Verizon.
Thanks!
There is an app that avoid's detected called ClockworkMod Tether, it's worth a try.
It doesn't require root either if security is a concern
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Thanks but....
I appreciate the help but ClockworkMod Tether is a USB tether solution, not a wireless hotspot. I have never had this happen before on other carriers.
Magik_Breezy said:
There is an app that avoid's detected called ClockworkMod Tether, it's worth a try.
It doesn't require root either if security is a concern
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ES File Explorer
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...sMSwxLDMsImNvbS5lc3Ryb25ncy5hbmRyb2lkLnBvcCJd
The app I use is mainly for File browsing, but I've noticed with the new version is has the ability to turn on Tethering and by-pass the carrier check (on AT&T at least).
No system file modification needed.
Simply go to:
Menu -> Tools -> Net Manager
Downloaded and confirmed it works. This definitely a big plus!
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geekdadof3 said:
Downloaded and confirmed it works. This definitely a big plus!
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Are you also rooted? I'm not sure if it worked for unrooted devices.
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ES File Explorer
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...sMSwxLDMsImNvbS5lc3Ryb25ncy5hbmRyb2lkLnBvcCJd
The app I use is mainly for File browsing, but I've noticed with the new version is has the ability to turn on Tethering and by-pass the carrier check (on AT&T at least).
No system wasnt a net manager in my settings options..... so I uninstalled the ES file explorer I had and then installed this one. I was able to turn on the tethering, and my computer recognized it and it appeared to be running, but I was never able to connect to any webpages.
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I am not rooted...still worked!
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NICE!!
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Holy crap. it works. I just turned it on, joined my laptop to it and I'm browsing web pages!!
I'm a new customer to AT&T. So... what is the likelihood that they will catch you and do something drastic, like cancel your service or something? I don't have unlimited data, so it's not like I would abuse it.
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Holy crap. it works. I just turned it on, joined my laptop to it and I'm browsing web pages!!
I'm a new customer to AT&T. So... what is the likelihood that they will catch you and do something drastic, like cancel your service or something? I don't have unlimited data, so it's not like I would abuse it.
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Chances are low. Extremely low. I've never been notified once on Android. Even if they detect you they are obligated to send you a written warning before they charge you for extra features. I know this from unauthorized tethering on my iPhone.
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Just confirmed this works with out the need to root or change any system files.
Thanks
ZPaul2Fresh8 said:
ES File Explorer
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...sMSwxLDMsImNvbS5lc3Ryb25ncy5hbmRyb2lkLnBvcCJd
The app I use is mainly for File browsing, but I've noticed with the new version is has the ability to turn on Tethering and by-pass the carrier check (on AT&T at least).
No system file modification needed.
Simply go to:
Menu -> Tools -> Net Manager
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I had already installed this app after rooting since I love the File Browsing and the great functionality this app has but I never even noticed this setting. Thanks so much for this post, very helpful! I did hit thanks for you too
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Chances are low. Extremely low. I've never been notified once on Android. Even if they detect you they are obligated to send you a written warning before they charge you for extra features. I know this from unauthorized tethering on my iPhone.
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Thanks sir. it's surprising this works without root.
Thanks for sharing! I'm not rooted and it works fine.
VERY cool, now they just need to incorporate a widget to turn this sucker on and off quickly without having to fumble through the app and it would be perfect!
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Awesome!!! Great find.
please help my confused mind... the phone comes with an att hotspot app... wouldnt this be the same thing? att doesnt charge to use this app, it just goes against data (at least on my plan).
ejbmvp said:
please help my confused mind... the phone comes with an att hotspot app... wouldnt this be the same thing? att doesnt charge to use this app, it just goes against data (at least on my plan).
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You're definitely confused, so I'll help.... The ATT Hotspot app is to connect your phone to the wireless hotspot ATT provides for free at various locations so you don't use your data plan
Wireless tethering is to connect another device (laptop, WiFi tablet, another phone, etc) to use your data plan on your phone wirelessly, turning your phone into a router, receiving data and broadcasting an SSID like your WiFi at home / work does
Make sense?
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You're definitely confused, so I'll help.... The ATT Hotspot app is to connect your phone to the wireless hotspot ATT provides for free at various locations so you don't use your data plan
Wireless tethering is to connect another device (laptop, WiFi tablet, another phone, etc) to use your data plan on your phone wirelessly, turning your phone into a router, receiving data and broadcasting an SSID like your WiFi at home / work does
Make sense?
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your explanation does make sense. But, i use the att mobile hotspot app to connect (tether) my laptop to send out emails on my work email because comcast has blocked port 25, whereas i can still send them out tethering from my phone to laptop.
ejbmvp said:
your explanation does make sense. But, i use the att mobile hotspot app to connect (tether) my laptop to send out emails on my work email because comcast has blocked port 25, whereas i can still send them out tethering from my phone to laptop.
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So seems like you must paying for service. This app you using ( stock Mobile Hotspot) dose not work for free with At&t phones if you do not paying for service. I just try and asking me to call 611 for activating tethering.
Thanks OP. works great here.:good:
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So seems like you must paying for service. This app you using ( stock Mobile Hotspot) dose not work for free with At&t phones if you do not paying for service. I just try and asking me to call 611 for activating tethering.
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hrmmm, i guess i need to figure that out... im new to att, just switched when getting this phone. all i know is i am on their mobile share plan with unlimited talk & text, then we pay for the 4g data plan. so maybe the fee is built into the 4gb share data plan.
edit: yea just did some reading and because i am on a mobile share plan there is no fee. i guess that solves y i was confused to begin with on why the op posted this option for free tethering when i can use the built-in for free to tether.
I just got the HTC one yesterday. I'm coming from a galaxy note 2. I not the unlimited data plan that I believe come with 500 mb tethering. But clearly I don't want to spend an extra 15 a month for only 2 gb. Is there an app or a hack that will allow me to tether/use the one as a hotspot like the galaxy note?
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If you're already rooted, you can use the WiFi tentering app by CWM on the play store ( yellow WiFi icon). Just change the device profile to wlan0 and check the this option after the MAC spoofing section( can't remember the name right now haha.
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bestofrhcp said:
If you're already rooted, you can use the WiFi tentering app by CWM on the play store ( yellow WiFi icon). Just change the device profile to wlan0 and check the this option after the MAC spoofing section( can't remember the name right now haha.
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i THINK i did that already. not exactly sure what that last step meant lol. but i am rooted, and have treve mod on it. and have all the settings in it set. though when i use it as a hotspot, the data shows up under the tethering section on the tmobile account app. the only way ive found around it is using vpn shield. then the data isnt collected. BUT the problem with that is that it knocks down speeds considerably
What version of android do you have? I got it to work on 4.2.2 with the newest version of wifi tether for root users that has the option to not send tether command and I got it to work without enabling native tethering on the system.
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I am on 4.2.2. I'll try downloading the newest WiFi tethering and mess with the settings and come back. This has worked for you completely undetected by tmobile?
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I'm not seeing any option to not send tethering command
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Just changing the apn has always worked for me once rooted. Give it a shot
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What did you change the apn to?
kevinallen4325 said:
I just got the HTC one yesterday. I'm coming from a galaxy note 2. I not the unlimited data plan that I believe come with 500 mb tethering. But clearly I don't want to spend an extra 15 a month for only 2 gb. Is there an app or a hack that will allow me to tether/use the one as a hotspot like the galaxy note?
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I'm in the same boat as you with an unlimited data plan but I'm getting blocked for tethering. On my HTC One S there was a file I used to flash in TWRP that unlocked the APNs using the stock ROM when rooted. . But I have not found anything like that for the One yet.
I have read of some people using SQLite to edit the phones carrier list on other phones. But I'm not a developer and I don't know if that would work on this phone or not.
Just throwing an idea out there since the thread is here.
kevinallen4325 said:
I just got the HTC one yesterday. I'm coming from a galaxy note 2. I not the unlimited data plan that I believe come with 500 mb tethering. But clearly I don't want to spend an extra 15 a month for only 2 gb. Is there an app or a hack that will allow me to tether/use the one as a hotspot like the galaxy note?
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I got the stock hotspot app to work again. I had to go ahead and unlock my bootloader at HTCDev, flash TWRP recovery, flash a custom ROM (which I did NOT want to do), and add a different APN to get it to work again. I flashed the Revolutionary ROM, which is pretty close to a stock M7 ROM with a few minor tweaks. Has the same stock feel. Even on this ROM, the fast.t-mobile.com APN will block tethering and give you the page to add it to your plan. But if you add the old epc.tmobile.com APN, it will save and not switch back to the fast.t-mobile APN. Also, the APNs are not locked, you can delete it if you want.
I'm just testing out this ROM right now to see if I can get the same kind of battery life I get with the stock ROM. This is the main concern for me. The stock ROM got me 3 days of use out of the device. That's unheard of on any Android device I've ever used. If I have to spend weeks working out bugs and flashing different kernels, I'm going to run the RUU and return my device back to stock and continue searching for a way to modify my stock ROM or just give up and use one of those clunky slow apps in the market place.
But basically, you just need to find a way to unlock the APNs and you can get wifi tethering/hotspot to work natively.
Did anyone get Wifi Tether to work with 4.3 ROM? It did not for me. I am s-off.
chong67 said:
Did anyone get Wifi Tether to work with 4.3 ROM? It did not for me. I am s-off.
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Doesn't work for me either. It did with 4.2.2. I get an error when I try to close the Wifi Tether connection saying my phone is currently in an unknown state and prompts me to reboot.
Not sure how to solve this...
shawndh said:
I got the stock hotspot app to work again. I had to go ahead and unlock my bootloader at HTCDev, flash TWRP recovery, flash a custom ROM (which I did NOT want to do), and add a different APN to get it to work again. I flashed the Revolutionary ROM, which is pretty close to a stock M7 ROM with a few minor tweaks. Has the same stock feel. Even on this ROM, the fast.t-mobile.com APN will block tethering and give you the page to add it to your plan. But if you add the old epc.tmobile.com APN, it will save and not switch back to the fast.t-mobile APN. Also, the APNs are not locked, you can delete it if you want.
I'm just testing out this ROM right now to see if I can get the same kind of battery life I get with the stock ROM. This is the main concern for me. The stock ROM got me 3 days of use out of the device. That's unheard of on any Android device I've ever used. If I have to spend weeks working out bugs and flashing different kernels, I'm going to run the RUU and return my device back to stock and continue searching for a way to modify my stock ROM or just give up and use one of those clunky slow apps in the market place.
But basically, you just need to find a way to unlock the APNs and you can get wifi tethering/hotspot to work natively.
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works thanks